Communication adapter for ambulant medical or therapeutic devices
First Claim
1. A communication adapter for a portable, ambulant-operable medical device for diagnosis or treatment of a disorder of glucose metabolism, the communication adapter processing data between the medical device and a computer that serves for displaying operating parameters or measuring data of the medical device and/or for operating the medical device, comprising:
- the medical device comprises,a device processor for controlling the device, anda device-adapter interface for the communication of the device processor with a communication adapter, andthe communication adapter comprises,an adapter processor for controlling the communication adapter,an adapter-device interface for the communication of the communication adapter with the medical device,an adapter-computer interface for the communication of the adapter processor with a computer interface of the computer, anda device driver with corresponding transmission protocol for the communication with the device,and whereinthe communication adapter comprises a software or firmware that performs data analysis of a data read-out from the medical device independent of the computer, the communications adapter temporarily stores the data read-out from the device, and the data adapter provides the data that had been analyzed in a data format that is displayed by the computer with standard display software.
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Abstract
The invention generally relates to a communication adapter for use with an ambulant medical device. The device carries out a data transmission to the communication adapter that carries out a data transmission to a computer by means of a data connection. The communication adapter processes the data to be read-out from the devices in such a fashion that it can be displayed on a computer without the use of specific software.
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36 Claims
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1. A communication adapter for a portable, ambulant-operable medical device for diagnosis or treatment of a disorder of glucose metabolism, the communication adapter processing data between the medical device and a computer that serves for displaying operating parameters or measuring data of the medical device and/or for operating the medical device, comprising:
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the medical device comprises, a device processor for controlling the device, and a device-adapter interface for the communication of the device processor with a communication adapter, and the communication adapter comprises, an adapter processor for controlling the communication adapter, an adapter-device interface for the communication of the communication adapter with the medical device, an adapter-computer interface for the communication of the adapter processor with a computer interface of the computer, and a device driver with corresponding transmission protocol for the communication with the device, and wherein the communication adapter comprises a software or firmware that performs data analysis of a data read-out from the medical device independent of the computer, the communications adapter temporarily stores the data read-out from the device, and the data adapter provides the data that had been analyzed in a data format that is displayed by the computer with standard display software. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 35, 36)
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2. A communication adapter for a portable, ambulant-operable medical device for diagnosis or treatment of a disorder of glucose metabolism, the communications adapter, processing data between the medical device and a computer that serves for displaying operating parameters or measuring data of the medical device and/or operating the medical device, comprising:
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wherein the medical device comprises, a device processor for controlling the device, and a device-adapter interface for the communication of the device processor with a communication adapter, and wherein the communication adapter comprises, an adapter processor for controlling the communication adapter, an adapter-device interface for the communication of the communication adapter with the medical device, an adapter-computer interface for the communication of the adapter processor with a computer interface of the computer, and a device driver with corresponding transmission protocol for the communication with the device, wherein control of the communication adapter by the computer is implemented by sending read commands from the computer to the communication adapter by means of which trigger files in the communication adapter are read that are interpreted as control commands for the communication adapter by a software or firmware of the communication adapter.
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17. A communications adapter for an ambulant medical device, comprising:
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a housing containing electronics comprising, a processor, and memory coupled to the processor; a computer interface coupled to the electronics, the computer interface configured coupleable to a computer port to transmit data, receive data, and supply power to the electronics; a medical device interface coupled to the electronics, the medical device interface operable to communicate with a medical device to transmit data and receive data; device drivers present in the memory, each device driver having a communications protocol to permit reception of data from one or more medical devices and transmission of data to one or more medical devices; processing software present in the memory to processes the data received from one or more medical devices into a report; and reporting software present in the memory to configure the report on an internet browser operating on a computer free from further processing by the computer. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A communications adapter for an ambulant medical device, comprising:
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a housing containing electronics comprising a processor, and memory coupled to the processor; a computer interface coupled to the electronics, the computer interface configured coupleable to a computer port to transmit data, receive data, and supply power to the electronics; a medical device interface coupled to the electronic, the medical device interface operable to communicate with a medical device to transmit and receive data; device drivers contained in the memory, each device driver having a communications protocol to permit reception of data from one or more medical devices and transmission of data to one or more medical devices; a driver selector present in the memory, wherein the driver selector attempts to receive data through one or more of the device drivers until a compatible device driver is selected to permit receiving and transmitting data between the medical device and the medical device interface; means for processing the data received from one or more medical devices into a report; and reporting software present in memory to create the report that is displayed on an internet browser operating on a computer free from further processing by the computer.
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26. A communications adapter for an ambulant medical device, comprising:
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a housing containing electronics comprising, a processor, and memory coupled to the processor; a computer interface coupled to the electronics, the computer interface configured coupleable to a computer port to transmit data, receive data, and supply power to the electronics; a medical device interface coupled to the electronic, the medical device interface operable to communicate with a medical device to transmit and receive data; device drivers present in the memory, each device driver having a communications protocol to permit reception of data from one or more medical devices and transmission of data to one or more medical devices; a driver selector contained in the memory, wherein the driver selector attempts to receive data through one or more of the device drivers until a compatible device driver is selected to permit receiving and transmitting data between the medical device and the medical device interface; processing software contained in memory to processes the data received from one or more medical devices into a report; and means for reporting that creates the report that is displayed on an internet browser operating on a computer free from further processing by the computer.
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27. A method for interfacing a medical device with a computer without the computer storing medical device files or having programs to analyze data received from a medical device, comprising:
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transmitting data from a medical device to a communications adapter; receiving the data by the communications adapter that was transmitted by the medical device; selecting a device driver by the communications adapter that is compatible with the medical device; adjusting the medical device transmission rate by the communications adapter to an optimal rate; storing medical device data in memory present in the communications adapter; analyzing the medical device data in the communications adapter to produce a report without processing by a computer; sending the report from the communications adapter to the computer; and reporting the report on an internet browser operating on the computer. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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28. The method in 27 further comprising,
sending a read command from the computer to the communications adapter to select a trigger file contained in the communications adapter that the communications adapter interprets as an execution command to control the communications adapter.
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